The wife went out and bought me a Laptop running Windows 7. So i have just dual booted Windows 7 and Linuxmint-14.1-MATE. Everything went along great until after re-booting and the Linuxmint desktop appeared and i found that no matter what i did i simply could not get online?

So i opened a terminal and run the command "lspci" the contents of which i have posted below. I have also run another command "dmesg" the output of which i shall save unless i am asked to provide. Hope someone can help because Linuxmint is the only Linux OS i want to use on a regular basis.

Well, you have an ethernet network interface (Card-1 in above) so perhaps have another hunt for it Or is it a super slim laptop, with one of those mini ethernet network interfaces for which you need a dongle?

This wireless chip is certified by Ubuntu, so it should work. One recommendation for having a very slow connection on it is to disable a problematic feature. To do so, run the following command from a terminal and then reboot.

Have finally managed to install Linux Mint 14 "Nadia" and still have internet access. Did a fresh install of Linux Mint onto my laptop with a wired connection. I still have to find out how to configure the laptop for a wireless connection. Would also like to know how to change Nat to Bridged the next time i attempt to use VirtualBox.